Alan Abel, serial hoaxer: a very worthy addition to the MindRomp roll of honour

Quote:

There were also the Topless String Quartet, with which, Mr. Abel said, an unsuspecting Frank Sinatra wanted to book a recording session; the Ku Klux Klan Symphony Orchestra, which, he said, the failed presidential candidate and former Klan grand wizard David Duke briefly accepted an invitation to conduct; Females for Felons, a group of Junior Leaguers who selflessly donated sex to the incarcerated; the mass “fainting” of audience members during a live broadcast of “The Phil Donahue Show”; his “discovery” (he posed as a former White House employee) of the missing 18½ minutes from the Watergate tapes; Euthanasia Cruises (“For people who wanted to expire in luxury,” Mr. Abel’s website recounted); Citizens Against Breastfeeding, which argued that exposure to the “naughty nipple” in infancy caused a plethora of problems later on; and a great many others.

__________________spruce: apart from the weird tuft of white hair she's still a beautiful person

worthy of marking not only for his contribution as a classical composer, conductor, teacher, and communicator, but also for the spontaneous reaction from people who heard his time was near to appear in his street and play his favourite movie piece, the theme from The Dam Busters

-

unseen bit from the original Spicks and Specks series

__________________spruce: apart from the weird tuft of white hair she's still a beautiful person